Met with the library people to discuss the College’s Schweitzer collection. This is a large collection of documents, objects, and possessions owned and related to Albert Schweitzer. This is a resource with great potential, but largely uncatalogued. It will be a slow, but rewarding, task to turn the collection into a usable resource for faculty,
No real routine yet – too early of course. The days are filled with meetings – many interesting and full of promise. As I transition from being a Chair to a Dean it is interesting to work with my colleagues and appreciate what they are doing in the early days of semester. There is comfort
Today I was reminded of the importance of support staff – all that they do is so often ‘behind the scenes’ and yet vital to every College, Department, and individual faculty. As Wilkinson moves in new directions the significance of the staff becomes more emphasized. Today we continued our interviews for the Dean’s assistant (left
Chapman University has announced the schedule for its inaugural Big Orange Book Festival on the Chapman campus on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 21 and 22. The large-scale event will feature free talks and panels by acclaimed authors and literary figures from Orange County, Southern California and around the world, as well as festival booths throughout
Tabula Poetica kicks off it’s first of five events featuring poetry talks and readings from poets from around the globe. First up, Victoria Chang! Victoria Chang’s second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta , was published by the University of Georgia Press as part of the VQR Poetry Series. Her first book, Circle
On Saturday, Sept. 15, Art Professor Micol Hebron will be showing a piece of her art in a show called “Fix-It-Up Too“, a reprise of The Fix-It-Up Show, a project first developed by Jeffrey Vallance and Michael Uhlenkott for an exhibition at LACE in 1981. Several artists were asked to bring in works that they
On Friday, September 14, 2012, Chapman University is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Closing th e Latino Achievement Gap Summit (CLAG) . This year’s theme is “En Colaboracción – A Call for United Action” and will begin at 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Chapman University in Beckman Hall, room 404. The purpose
Day 3: I snuck a few hours of research time today – a guilty pleasure! I’m aiming to finish up an afterward for a forthcoming book on Cinematic Terror and the Sublime; and there is also the writing up of a conference paper that I gave at a conference on Psychoanalysis and Poetry at Oxford
Day 2: It is the Labor Day weekend and I found myself in one of those crowded malls that Southern California does better than just about anywhere else in the world. As the sea of people criss-crossed before us, I asked my two sons (Noah, aged 9, and Joshua, just turned 7) what they could
(This is the first of many postings to come directly from new Wilkinson College Dean Patrick Fuery. We welcome your comments and encourage you to return often to see what Dean Fuery is up to and what he has planned for Wilkinson College.) Day 1: I have of late (to worryingly paraphrase Hamlet)